After Trump pulled NASA nomination, Musk ally Jared Isaacman says stint in politics was 'thrilling'

Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments, stands for a portrait in front of the recovered first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on February 2, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. Days after his nomination for NASA was pulled by President Donald Trump, Jared Isaacman told investors in his payments company Shift4 that his "brief stint in politics was a thrilling experience." Isaacman said in the letter that he was resigning as CEO of Shift4, which he founded in 1999 at age 16, and will assume the role of executive chairman. He had been planning to leave the company if his nomination was confirmed by the Senate. But it never got that far. In a post on Truth Social over the weekend, Trump said that he was withdrawing Isaacman's nomination "after a thorough review of prior associations." The president didn't indicate what those associations were, though some reports have suggested that it ... Read full article.